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Desencuentro · Roberto Goyeneche · 1986

Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1986
Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 8 recordings in our catalogue, 1962–2024.

Who recorded it

Every version8

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1962

  1. Aníbal TroiloElba Berón · Roberto Rufino19621963
  2. Osvaldo PuglieseAlfredo Belusi1962
  3. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche1968
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garré2006
  5. Orquesta Típica Pichuco20172024
  6. Roberto Goyeneche1986

Recorded in 1986, during the Revival (1985–1999).

1986

19851999

Roberto Goyeneche · no periods written yet

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Year
1986
Orchestra
Roberto Goyeneche
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

ROBERTO GOYENECHE Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICARoberto GoyenecheDESENCUENTROTango1986

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

6 orchestras recorded it

125 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Estás desorientado y no sabés qué 'trole' hay que tomar para seguir. Y en este desencuentro con la fe querés cruzar el mar y no podés. La araña que salvaste te picó -¡qué vas a hacer!- y el hombre que ayudaste te hizo mal -¡dale nomás!- Y todo el carnaval gritando pisoteó la mano fraternal que Dios te dio. ¡Qué desencuentro! ¡Si hasta Dios está lejano! Llorás por dentro, todo es cuento, todo es vil. En el corso a contramano un trampeó a Jesús... No te fíes ni de tu hermano, se te cuelgan de la cruz... Quisiste con ternura, y el amor te devoró de atrás hasta el riñón. Se rieron de tu abrazo y ahí nomás te hundieron con rencor todo el arpón Amargo desencuentro, porque ves que es al revés... Creiste en la honradez y en la moral... ¡qué estupidez! Por eso en tu total fracaso de vivir, ni el tiro del final te va a salir.

English · machine translation

You are disoriented and don't know which 'trolley' to take to go on. And in this misunderstanding with faith you want to cross the sea and you cannot. The spider you saved has bitten you -what are you going to do? and the man you helped did you wrong -And the whole carnival And the whole carnival shouting trampled the brotherly hand that God gave you. What a misunderstanding! Even God is far away! You cry inside, all is fairy tale, all is vile. In the corso on the wrong side of the road a groupie cheated Jesus... Don't even trust your brother, they hang you from the cross... You loved with tenderness, and love devoured you from the back to the kidney. They laughed at your embrace and right there and then they sank you with rancor all the harpoon Bitter misunderstanding, because you see that it's the other way around... You believed in honesty and in morality... what a stupidity! That's why in your total failure to live, not even the final shot is not going to come out.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 8 recordings of this song by 6 orchestras, 1962 to 2024.
1960’70’80’90’00’10’20
Recordings of Desencuentro · Roberto Goyeneche · 1986 by year, taller the more they are danced · 8 of 8 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

A Song's recorded lineage

We hold dated Recordings by 6 orchestras; the earliest here is Aníbal Troilo in 1962.

  1. 1962Aníbal TroiloRecording
  2. 1962Osvaldo PuglieseRecording
  3. 1968Baffa-BerlingieriRecording
  4. 1986Roberto GoyenecheRecording
  5. 2006Orquesta Típica ImperialRecording
  6. 2017Orquesta Típica PichucoRecording

Gold marks the first we hold, not the first ever. Filled dots have filmed Dances; rings have no Dances matched yet.

8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 5 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Aníbal Troilo, with 94% of the 125 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

43 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseDesencuentro · Osvaldo Pugliese · Alfredo Belusi · tango · Aug 1, 1962 · Philips
    7 dances · 6%
    1962
  2. Baffa-BerlingieriDesencuentro · Baffa-Berlingieri · Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1968 · rca camden
    No match yet
    1968
  3. Roberto GoyenecheDesencuentro · Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1986
    No match yet
    1986
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialDesencuentro · Orquesta Típica Imperial · Omar Garré · tango · Aug 1, 2006
    No match yet
    2006
  5. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  6. Alberto MarinoNot in our catalogue
  7. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  8. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  9. Sexteto CanyengueNot in our catalogueFabián Russo

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

ROBERTO GOYENECHE Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICARoberto GoyenecheDESENCUENTROTango1986

Roberto Goyeneche

Desencuentro · Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1986

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

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What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

The day it was recorded, the record label.

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  1. Desencuentro · Aníbal Troilo · Elba Berón · 1962

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